President Donald Trump addressed attendees on Wednesday during the opening ceremony of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, using the platform to target communism and call for a revival of national pride.

Rediscovering American Spirit

During his speech, Trump emphasized the need to look back at history to guide the country’s future direction. “This is a time to rediscover the indomitable spirit that built our country and all that will ensure America always remains the most exceptional nation on the face of the earth,” Trump said.

Trump told the crowd that the new library was the ideal venue to launch this cultural rediscovery, drawing direct comparisons to the characteristics of the nation’s 26th president. “There could be no better place to begin this rediscovery than with the life and times and passions of Theodore Roosevelt,” Trump said.

Trump continued to praise Roosevelt’s character, describing him as “an American man through and through” whose “chest swelled with American optimism, confidence, enthusiasm, pride.” Trump added that Roosevelt’s “heart beat with an unyielding sense of America’s destiny and pride, and that pride was bigger.”

Original reporting: Tampa Free Press — read the source article.